Webmaster Forum / Perl / Tk / February 2004

I have been reading and reading the man page for Tk::Listbox and
looked all over google for an answer.
I have this major hurdle with the Listbox widget. I am listing a list
of names taken from a database. The list is sorted. I now would like

I'm looking to implement a GUI, and was wondering
how I should go about interfacing my c code with perltk.
Basically, I now have a piece of perl script that doesn't
do anything fancy except it passes a bunch of parsed args

I've been reading a discussion in comp.lang.perl.misc about
using & in subroutine calls.  It seems pretty straight-forward
reasoning in plain Perl.
But & seems to be used alot in Tk sub calls, and was wondering

ZooZ is a Perl/Tk GUI builder in the making. I'm making a snapshot of the
latest code available for comments from anyone interested. It can be
downloaded from:
http://www.cim.mcgill.ca/~qumsieh/public_files/ZooZ-0.04_beta.zip

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I have a Tk problem.
How do I update the cells in an HList Box?
I have a routine that runs in a while loop, and includes the $mw->update().
this loop is to refresh the HList box.

I am using Tk::TableMatrix::Spreadsheet module.
my problem is, how do I left justify the text in each cell?
Thanks in advance for any help.
Regards,

I've built basically a entry widget which calls a sub which in turn
updates a text widget.  I can do several updates to the Text widget
during the sub call and even call the $text->see('end') method during,
but these updates to the text widget do not appear untill the sub has

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applying the filetest operator "-d" to a directory whose name contains a
german umlaut (e.g. "ü") usually gives the correct result, but this
seems not to be the case if the directory name is retrieved from a Tk
widget (as content of Tk::Entry, Tk::Text etc.).

I need to document the minimum perl versions for the various Tk's in an
installation manual. Could someone please provide accurate answers..
1. What is the absolute minimum perl version required for Tk800.025?
Recommended perl version (if any)?

I want to turn on some debugging flags when compiling and can't figure out
how to make the changes...
I tried editing 'makefile' (i know it isn't the right way ;-)
and nmake would ignore them...

I am trying to install Perl/Tk on a Linux box that is not
administered by me. I am trying to use the INSTALLDIRS=path
option to install the lot in my home directory, but fail
miserably. What I tried is:

I'm just now (re-)learning Perl-Tk.  I don't see any way to
have rotated text.  Did I just miss it?